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say it: KAP-suhl
capsule is a noun and verb meaning "a small container". It carries 9 recorded senses.
a shortened version of a written work
a structure that encloses a body part
a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume
“capsulize the news”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for capsule come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.